Essays on Plays

The human mind consists of good and evil decisions, morals, or ideas. Whether or not we are born with those qualities is a different question. Yale University concluded a research finding that babies are innately born good, and are capable of passing moral judgement from the age of one. On the contrary, well known philosopher...

Historically, the list of Shakespeare’s plays which appeared in 1598 doesn’t include the Twelfth Night. It was referred to by John Manningham in 1602 so it was perhaps composed between these years. Other historical evidences suggest that it was presented to Queen Elizabeth on Twelfth Night in 1601 and her guest of honour was an...

 To be resilient is synonymous with being elastic and persistent. How does a single person possess this unimaginable trait? Both Oedipus and Hamlet have their fair share of tragedies. Oedipus suffers a life based on a prophecy that says he is going to conduct patricide, incest and eventually go blind (205), Hamlet likewise is facing...

Antigone, the ancient greek play written by Sophocles, is a story about a woman named Antigone who breaks the kings law by burying her brother who is considered a traitor to the state. The king, Creon, despises the action Antigone commits and uses his power against her. Creon holds the tragic flaws of ignorance and...

In the play, The Merchant of Venice, the reader goes through a roller coaster full of emotions as the characters must make difficult and costly decisions. However, Nerissa was the one character who stood out. In the play, Nerissa is Portia’s lady in waiting as Portia’s parents are deceased. Nerissa demonstrates a loyal friendship with...

The renaissance or golden age is the time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth’s reign lasted from 1558 to 1633, where Queen Elizabeth occupied the throne after her sister, Mary, who was her half-sister died (John S. Morrill Stephen J. Greenblatt, 2019). Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which also ended the 16th century...

The play that shall be used as a case study in this essay is the Shakespearean tragedy, Othello. Written in 1603, the first performance was recorded a year later in the newly ordained king James I’s court. Whilst the play is set in 1570, and focuses on the war between Venice and the Ottoman empire,...

Priestley explores responsibility through all the characters. His aim was to highlight that our actions always affect another person even if we think it doesn’t Priestley wanted a socio-political shift in the world as he wanted people to help build a better and caring society. In inspector calls there is a heavy use of anadiplosis...

An Inspector Calls by JBP is an unapologetically political play, which criticizes the past while suggesting hope for the future; the power is arguably used by Priestley as part of a wider argument on the benefits of socialism and the cruel consequences of capitalism. Power is presented through the characters of Mr. Birling and Inspector...

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of absurdism in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Absurdism as a philosophy stands on the idea that the whole universe is irrational and meaningless and that the look for order brings the person into conflict with the universe. During the period of the two World Wars, the mass...